through a pinhole) and cannot concentrate on seeing close things more than one minute, things disappear
after then. For years she thinks this is how people see and she was diagnosed as schizophrenic. After
twenty years Kaplan finds out that she has a troubled vision and she is released form being schizophrenic.
Hence she realizes that she has a much more different vision than other people after some twenty years.
Motivation for this story is that, for now may be we cannot tell what�s in the other�s mind or in our own
mind but science might tell us how to find out this. Moreover on going research in psychology at least tells
us that colors have physical effects on us so having the quality Q1 of color C1 is distinguishable having the
quality Q1 and color C2. So we might be able to tell that someone has inverted color spectrum may be some
years after now.
In conclusion I believe the explanatory power of qualia theory is poor for sensations but I do not agree that it
is totally a false theory. It only needs a better formulation and a better explanation for the base level for
acquiring the first images. Until recently, till I reviewed my thoughts before writing this paper I thought it
was a horrible theory but now I realize it is only a horrible theory in some parts as having the objection to
functionalism saying that there might be one causal effect but different qualia or lacking the explanatory
power for awareness.
II
Prelude
1. Going back to uterus
Let�s start the analysis from the very beginning, from the birth. While you are coming to this world leaving
the most comfortable place on earth, your experience is not a pleasant one definitely. It is a combined form
of pain and fear and you are making that strange noise (you will say crying later, you do not even know
these are noises at the moment) and why you are crying then if you know anything about any of these after
all you scream your lungs out and maybe that�s a relief for you. You do not only cry you shake your hands;
kick the air as if you are struggling with something. You are in an uncomfortable position but you do not
even know this now. You are not in this comfortable warm silent dim place anymore you do not hear the
music (breathing, beating heart etc.) You just know/realize/acquired whatever happened to you. You do not
want any of this because you were so comfortable there. And that �crying� was somehow only thing you
could do. But then suddenly you started to hear the same heart beat again, different but kind of something
you are familiar with, then they make your mouth rest on some warm object and somehow you start to suck
it and there was a resting warm feeling in your stomach and you cooled down, it was not so bad you were
comfortable again and you could do the usual thing and sleep (that was what you were doing most of the
time when you were in the uterus, but you do not know this yet). Oh no you wake up and then that horrible
light again, where is this warm feeling on your mouth, you just want to do what were you doing before,
going back to the same state, because you were so comfortable, where is the heart beat!!! Hmm suddenly
you are making these sounds again, oh, you are taken to the comfortable place again. You
realize/know/acquire, those strange voices take you back to the comfortable state again.
